Gejon 2 Posted October 18, 2007 Share Posted October 18, 2007 Quite liked Alfie Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Happy Face 29 Posted October 18, 2007 Share Posted October 18, 2007 Female Prisoner #701: Scorpion - excellent, something for everyone...except straight women. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Radgina 1 Posted October 19, 2007 Share Posted October 19, 2007 Female Prisoner #701: Scorpion - excellent, something for everyone...except straight women. tsk... well thats me fucked then .... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Happy Face 29 Posted October 19, 2007 Share Posted October 19, 2007 Female Prisoner #701: Scorpion - excellent, something for everyone...except straight women. tsk... well thats me fucked then .... You certainly would have been if you were in it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dr Gloom 21760 Posted October 19, 2007 Share Posted October 19, 2007 fortress. absolute shocker of an 80s sci-fi with christopher lambert. so bad it's good. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dr Gloom 21760 Posted October 19, 2007 Share Posted October 19, 2007 the wife "made" me watch Alfie, it's fooking terrible. Glad I wasn't the only one subjected to that, absolute tosh. the original is a classic. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest alex Posted October 19, 2007 Share Posted October 19, 2007 the wife "made" me watch Alfie, it's fooking terrible. Glad I wasn't the only one subjected to that, absolute tosh. the original is a classic. What's it all about? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dr Gloom 21760 Posted October 19, 2007 Share Posted October 19, 2007 the wife "made" me watch Alfie, it's fooking terrible. Glad I wasn't the only one subjected to that, absolute tosh. the original is a classic. What's it all about? alfie Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jimbo 172 Posted October 21, 2007 Author Share Posted October 21, 2007 Gladiator: Special Edition Fuck I love that film. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Happy Face 29 Posted October 21, 2007 Share Posted October 21, 2007 Daft Punk's Electroma On the one hand it's a ponderous, pretentions and self indulgent film with no dialogue whatsoever, that's willfully slow going. On the other hand, I'm afraid to say, I really enjoyed it. The first half hour especially is rather funny. It owes a huge debt to Fata Morgana (another ponderous, pretentions and self indulgent film that's still brilliant) while not quite forgoing narrative altogether. As you'd expect from a Daft Punk film, the soundtrack is lush (Rundgren, Eno, Mayfield, Chopin) and the last scene is absoloutley stunning. While nothing else in the film matches that one shot there's lots of other interesting stuff, the scenes in the desert that (to my admittedly perverted little mind) are shot to look like a female body are particularly arresting...especially when the camera makes a slow zoom up her snatch. The version I watched was only 69 minutes and checking IMDB there seems to be various cuts up to 94 minutes long, I could imagine an extra half hour testing the patience of even the most forgiving viewer given that the last 40 minutes of the one I saw consists entirely of walking. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Happy Face 29 Posted October 21, 2007 Share Posted October 21, 2007 (edited) Spiderman 3 I loved the first 2 Spidermen, but this one is all over the shop. Its length was obviously a concern because they've cut bits that are referred to later to keep it as short as possible, which is a strange and confusing thing. What they could have done is cut out the entire Green Goblin side of the story that it starts with, because after his accident, recuperation and realisation of what went on in the past, his character and his relationship with Spidey hasn't moved a jot since the end of the last episode, but it's taken an hour to get there. But then you couldn't have had their exciting fight so early on...and Hollywood dictates that an action film must have an early action scene to satiate the impatient masses that crave fast cutting, loud thuds and special FX. There's other problems like the lack of explanation as to what on earth the black goop was, where it came from, who sent it, why did it go straight after Spidey, why did it make the other dude look like Jack Frost, isn't it a coincidence that these 3 all arrived independently on the same day, what the hell sort of experiments were they doing in that sand bunker etc etc. These might be obvious to fans of the comic, but without knowing it you feel a bit lost. You could cope with all these unanswered questions, but then there's the attempt at a comical interlude that just fucks the whole thing up. I remember the Raindrops Keep Falling on My Head sequence from the first one...and it worked. It was kitsch, but PP was a good guy just having fun with his super power, the funky James Brown section in this one is inexplicably bad. Apparently Toby Maguire can't do dark, angry and brooding....so an emo fringe will do the job just as well. For some unexplained reason this fringe makes him irresistible to the opposite sex and turns him into an uncompromising arsehole who takes everything he wants. The film sort of suggests it's his black suit making him be like this, but I don't see how that could affect other people’s reaction to him, so it had to be the fringe. It's all topped off by a horrible sing and dance number where PP gets a whole bar dancing with a performance of Fever I was agog at the end of. There are good things. The sandman is well developed and his first appearance as he learns how to take shape is superbly done, but this contrasts horribly with the aforementioned Jack Frost who is as weak a character as you will see, he's hardly got any screen time to become the bad guy he does, and whereas all the other 'baddies' have legitimate axes to grind with Spidey his qualm seems to clutch at straws. I'll still buy the DVD like, once it's cheap, I just want to hear Raimi explain himself. Edited October 21, 2007 by Happy Face Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Happy Face 29 Posted October 21, 2007 Share Posted October 21, 2007 Melinda and Melinda Woody Allen compares comedy and tragedy as techniques in storytelling but can't make his film come to the same conclusion as his characters. They come to an agreement that any story can be told as comedy or tragedy, it all depends on the teller. But his two versions of the same story are woefully unbalanced. Every second of the tragedy is interminably dull, you can't wait for Will Ferrel to come back on screen and start comparing his sex life to politics. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Fish 10674 Posted October 21, 2007 Share Posted October 21, 2007 Spiderman 3 Agree with that, It's difficult to know how people who aren't familiar with that set of characters will pick up the relationships and I did think they left Venom, Brock and JJ Jamieson's characters a little unexplained. Hate the "moody" Peter bit.. it's bollocks and nothing like the conscious-less, amoral Peter Parker that we see in the comics. The end fight scene was terrible, in no way should Parker fight two villains, nor should he fight with one. At the end of the day it strikes me as a film dictated by focus groups rather that a director having free reign Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Happy Face 29 Posted October 21, 2007 Share Posted October 21, 2007 Spiderman 3 Agree with that, It's difficult to know how people who aren't familiar with that set of characters will pick up the relationships and I did think they left Venom, Brock and JJ Jamieson's characters a little unexplained. Hate the "moody" Peter bit.. it's bollocks and nothing like the conscious-less, amoral Peter Parker that we see in the comics. The end fight scene was terrible, in no way should Parker fight two villains, nor should he fight with one. At the end of the day it strikes me as a film dictated by focus groups rather that a director having free reign Had a read through a few of the other posts on here and seems I was just repeating what's already been said. Not one positive comment. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jusoda Kid 1 Posted October 21, 2007 Share Posted October 21, 2007 The singing and dancing scene was cringeworthy Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Fish 10674 Posted October 21, 2007 Share Posted October 21, 2007 Spiderman 3 Agree with that, It's difficult to know how people who aren't familiar with that set of characters will pick up the relationships and I did think they left Venom, Brock and JJ Jamieson's characters a little unexplained. Hate the "moody" Peter bit.. it's bollocks and nothing like the conscious-less, amoral Peter Parker that we see in the comics. The end fight scene was terrible, in no way should Parker fight two villains, nor should he fight with one. At the end of the day it strikes me as a film dictated by focus groups rather that a director having free reign Had a read through a few of the other posts on here and seems I was just repeating what's already been said. Not one positive comment. Don't get me wrong it's a decent film in terms of the set pieces, but the acting isn't great, the script lacked the punch and wit of the 1st two, little to know gravitas and Raimi broke his own rule about having the hero fight one villain. They should have had Sandman at the start to satisfy the audience's craving for a fight scene, semi resolve that, move onto the Venom story aand have that building throughout the film, layer an undercurrent for the fourth film's collision of Spiderman and the Hobgoblin, finalise Sandman with Venom-controlled Spidey, Parker repulsed by his own violence to Sandman then Parker deals with Venom. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
luckyluke 2 Posted October 21, 2007 Share Posted October 21, 2007 I thought the first two Spidermen were rubbish personally, so after hearing that fans of them weren't impressed with the third I've never been motivated to see it. I think the bubble has definitely burst for the superhero genre, although I'm looking forward to the next Batman. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jusoda Kid 1 Posted October 21, 2007 Share Posted October 21, 2007 I thought the first two Spidermen were rubbish personally, so after hearing that fans of them weren't impressed with the third I've never been motivated to see it. I think the bubble has definitely burst for the superhero genre, although I'm looking forward to the next Batman. Another Batman Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Happy Face 29 Posted October 21, 2007 Share Posted October 21, 2007 Finally got round to buying Dead Mans Shoes on Friday and watching it tonight. I thought I was impressed by This Is England, but this blew it out of the water. I'm going to watch it again later on, but I already know it's going to be a long term favourite. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ewerk 30167 Posted October 21, 2007 Share Posted October 21, 2007 The Departed - Better the second time round, still overrated though. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jusoda Kid 1 Posted October 21, 2007 Share Posted October 21, 2007 Hannibal Rising - quite liked it 7/10 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Fish 10674 Posted October 21, 2007 Share Posted October 21, 2007 I thought the first two Spidermen were rubbish personally, so after hearing that fans of them weren't impressed with the third I've never been motivated to see it. I think the bubble has definitely burst for the superhero genre, although I'm looking forward to the next Batman. Another Batman have you watched Batman Begins? it's not the high camp of th recent shit, nor is it the über camp of Adam West and co. I saw it a couple of times at the cinema, once with my dad who hates everything sci-fi/fantasy/bizarre and even he said it was a good film. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dr Kenneth Noisewater 0 Posted October 21, 2007 Share Posted October 21, 2007 The Heartbreak Kid - Poor in comparison to some of the Farrelly brothers other films. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
luckyluke 2 Posted October 22, 2007 Share Posted October 22, 2007 I thought the first two Spidermen were rubbish personally, so after hearing that fans of them weren't impressed with the third I've never been motivated to see it. I think the bubble has definitely burst for the superhero genre, although I'm looking forward to the next Batman. Another Batman have you watched Batman Begins? it's not the high camp of th recent shit, nor is it the über camp of Adam West and co. I saw it a couple of times at the cinema, once with my dad who hates everything sci-fi/fantasy/bizarre and even he said it was a good film. Not a patch on the first two films (ie Tim Burton's) though. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jusoda Kid 1 Posted October 22, 2007 Share Posted October 22, 2007 I thought the first two Spidermen were rubbish personally, so after hearing that fans of them weren't impressed with the third I've never been motivated to see it. I think the bubble has definitely burst for the superhero genre, although I'm looking forward to the next Batman. Another Batman have you watched Batman Begins? it's not the high camp of th recent shit, nor is it the über camp of Adam West and co. I saw it a couple of times at the cinema, once with my dad who hates everything sci-fi/fantasy/bizarre and even he said it was a good film. Batman begins was decent, the rest were abysmal Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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